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Today’s must-read
A recently recruited doctor is suing CancerCare Manitoba, claiming it reneged on an agreement that saw him leave his job in Calgary and move to Winnipeg.
Dr. Maclean Thiessen, an oncologist specializing in breast and gastrointestinal cancer, filed a lawsuit against the provincial agency in the Court of King’s Bench on Aug. 20.
The doctor says he suffered “humiliation, embarrassment and damage to his professional reputation” because CancerCare provided “misleading, untruthful and/or inaccurate information” when it recruited him to work in the province. Tyler Searle has the story.
On the bright side
The distinctive Northern Bald Ibis, hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century, was revived by breeding and rewilding efforts over the last two decades. But the birds — known for their distinctive black-and-iridescent green plumage, bald red head and long curved beak — don’t instinctively know which direction to fly to migrate without the guidance of wild-born elders. So a team of scientists and conservationists stepped in as foster parents and flight instructors.
“We have to teach them the migration route,” said biologist Johannes Fritz. The Associated Press has more here.
The migration of a group of Northern Bald Ibis, supported by foster parents of the birds in a microlight aircraft, waving and shouting encouragement through a bullhorn as it flies through the air from Austria to in Italy in 2022. (Waldrappteam Conservation & Research / The Associated Press files)
On this date
On Aug. 27, 1936: The Winnipeg Free Press reported a fierce battle in the Spanish Civil War near France’s border resulted in shells and bombs exploding in French territory and forcing an evacuation of the area. A Swedish baroness and a Stockholm commercial pilot were set to embark from New York to Stockholm on a trans-Atlantic flight. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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